1. Introduction The need to ensure that only the right people have authorisation to high-security accesses has led to the development of systems for automatic personal verification. Fingerprints, palmprints, voice and handwriting have all been used to verify the declared identity of an individual. Among all, signature has a fundamental advantage in that it is the customary way of identifying an...

In the present study, the effect of intrauterine infusion of Zataria multiflora extract on the clinical endometritis was investigated. Vaginal examination, transrectal palpation and ultrasonography were used to inspect the genital tract at 30-40 days in milk and two weeks later the same approach was applied. Cows with clinical endometritis were randomly divided into three treatment groups: Z. m...

Odorant pens are used by medical practitioners and researchers to assess olfactory dysfunction. Despite their routine use, there are currently no data on the gas-phase odorant concentrations released from the pen tips or whether these concentrations scale linearly with the aqueous-phase concentrations inside the pens. The commercially available Sniffin' Sticks odor threshold test containing n-b...

Results Of the 3,789 participants sent a 60-month questionnaire in the pen group, 3,500 (92.4%) returned it compared with 3,462/3,793 (91.3%) in the control group (OR 1.16, 95% CI 0.98 to 1.37, p=0.08). There was evidence of a reduction of the number of reminders required (p=0.02) and the time taken to respond (p=0.01) in the pen group. Some difference was found in the completeness of the prima...

BAL5788 is a water-soluble prodrug of BAL9141, a new broad-spectrum cephalosporin with high levels of in vitro activity against methicillin- and vancomycin-resistant staphylococci and penicillin-resistant streptococci. In plasma BAL5788 is rapidly converted to BAL9141. We studied the activity of BAL5788 in a mouse model of acute pneumococcal pneumonia. Leukopenic female Swiss albino mice were c...

Changes in tissue homeostasis, acquisition of invasive cell characteristics, and tumor formation can often be linked to the loss of epithelial cell polarity. In carcinogenesis, the grade of neoplasia correlates with impaired cell polarity. In Drosophila, lethal giant larvae (lgl), discs large (dlg), and scribble, which are components of the epithelial apico-basal cell polarity machinery, act as...

We show that a deep learning model with built-in relational inductive bias can bring benefits to sample-efficient learning, without relying on extensive data augmentation. Our study shows excellent results be achieved in which the is applied images, while building an efficient one-shot classifier top of raw strokes more challenging. The proposed classification performs matching pair inputs form...

Abstract The temperature-dependent molecular orientation variation of pentacene (PEN) on a graphene-covered substrate (PEN/Gr) was investigated via p-polarized multiple-angle incidence resolution spectrometry (pMAIRS). temperature regime the transition PEN/Gr different from that PEN/SiO 2 . collective barrier (COB), an energy molecules need to overcome form standing orientation, estimated pMAIR...